It Went Viral, But Why?: Hillary's 1st Instagram
If you said, because it's patriotic, that's too easy.
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Scott Walker and the GOP's Biker Pose
The Mad Max aesthetic lets the GOP project tribal and libertarian instincts at the same time.
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The Screen Shot to Consider BEFORE the Cop in McKinney Pulled his Gun on Black Teenagers
Perhaps it starts with questions like: who and where are the adults?
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What's Familiar and Different about the First Scenes of S. Korea's MERS Outbreak
Given the impact on Seoul, it's a threat that is all-too-easy to visualize in the west.
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On the Invisibility of Upper East Side Primates, and the Rich in General
When it comes to candid images of the upper and the upper-upper classes, a secret shame of the visual media is that it self-censors.
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A Demanding Photo from Lynn Johnson’s National Geographic Cannabis Feature
What's powerful about the photo is how it functions as testimony.
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Clinton / Sanders #2: The Look of Authenticity
Hillary's Iowa campaign photos so far have demonstrated the ultimate concern, engagement and compassion. And that’s the problem.
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Behind the Niqab: The (Male) Photographer's Perspective of Life Through the Veil – Part 2
The ability to frame a shot and have that image published in and discussed by major outlets is a privilege. Unfortunately, that privilege is too often reserved for men.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: So Much for Ploughshares and Pruning Hooks
War is a force that gives us meaning.
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The Caitlyn Jenner VF cover: Actually, What the Moment Called For Was Going Beyond Vanity
I, for one (maybe, the only one), think that the V in VF actually matters. Or, that there’s something weird in the culture when the exhibition of vanity is so equated to empowerment.
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When Those Endearing Photos of Kids and Riot Cops Really Aren't
It cautions us not to take pictures at face value or to assume that what's in a frame is necessarily that consistent with what's happening just outside of it.
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Clinton / Sanders Pix of the Week
Trolling the visual flotsam and jetsam better known as the nascent Democratic 2016 presidential campaign, two different photos floated to the surface.
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The Palestinians and the Indians: One Pic from Israel’s Burning Man
The parallel of the American West and the eradication of the “Native Americans” with the Israeli desert and the trials of the Palestinians is mind bending.
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Behind the Niqab: The (Male) Photographer’s Perspective of Life Through the Veil – Part 1
Men would do well to consider women’s perspectives more often—not just when there is a physical reminder that your literal view on the world is affected by your gender.
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We Commemorate these Losses but Where are they Leading us?
With Iraq teetering again and threatening to unspool, and with the Taliban in Afghanistan reasserting itself in our wake, what’s there to make of these treks?
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Make Love, Not War
If we agree that war is pathological, this image from an International Gay Rodeo Association event in Little Rock this week could be seen to radically challenge the disease.
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Migrant Other: The Rohingya Crisis and the Tendency of News Photos to Confuse Compassion with Patronization
I worry that newswire photographs during humanitarian crises have a way of exposing their subjects to a not-so-subtle mode of international brow-beating.
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Like Oil and Water
When it comes to the key issues of our time, how much does photography inform and how much does it entertain?
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